[MD] a view

[Bodvar Skutvik]

Hi Marsha


2 Apr. you wrote:


> This is how I understand the Intellectual (SOM) Level. From 

> the SOM perspective, there is the unknown and the known. 

> The known uses language as its primary tool. Language has been 

> built hand-in-hand with human understanding of reality, they have

> evolved together, and they reflect reality as subjects and objects,

> our language and subject-object metaphysics are interrelated. (In the

> Social Level, this s-o understanding is unconscious.) In the

> Intellectual Level the subject-object split is conscious, and has

> undergone a dissection to strip the `subjective´ from influencing our

> search for the external Truth in Nature. The Intellectual Level

> represents a formal Subject-Object Metaphysics, SOM, and is

> interconnected with the language we use to organize concepts and

> assign meaning. This is accomplished by giving concepts artificial

> boundaries and imaginary independence.


An impressive analysis. I recognize the difficulty in this "SOM-as-

MOQ's 4th level/SOM-as-MOQ's-antagonist" juggling. The 

known/unknown as part of intellect's repertoire, but not in the sense of 

unknown=subjective and known=objective, merely as "knowledge". 


I think the S/O split isn't merely "unconscious" but completely absent 

at the social level, why it (social value) was regarded as Quality itself 

by ZAMM (the Aretê that SOM =intellect ousted from 

the scene)


> From the MoQ perspective, Reality = Quality(DQ(unpatterned 

> experience)/sq(patterned experience(inorganic, biological, social,

> intellectual & code of art))). Every pattern contained within every

> level, including intellectual static patterns of value, is represented

> in that `sq´. Patterns are provisional, interrelated, ever-changing,

> and impermanent. 


Static patterns as interrelated, "yes", but ever-changing and impermanent"

 ... hmmm. "Static" means never changing - not having the capacity for 

change until DQ prods it. I would say the static levels and patterns are 

"incomplete" compared to the DQ/SQ which is the complete 

configuration.  




Bodvar


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